Blue lips, blue veins
She repeatedly uses this imagery throughout the song which creates a feeling of being cold. When we were younger, most people had no care in the world. We often reflect back on the times of ignorant bliss and protection from the outside world. As we become adults, we lose the warm comfort of our parents and hometown to face our cold lives of responsibility and loneliness. This kinesthetic feeling of being cold and blue reflects how life seems to treat us harshly when we grow up.
The pictures in his mind arose
And began to breathe
She personifies the "pictures in his mind. The pictures, or memories, were dormant and have now been remembered for what they truly are. When we are younger, we see things but they don't really register as anything and they get filed away in the backs of our minds. When we are older we look back on those memories and realize the harsh reality of what we thought was a harmless moment in our childhood. The use of personification gives a more personal reaction toward how we feel when we realize our childhood was not as happy as we remember.
"God, this is all there is."
Typically, when introduced formally to faith, one would expect to have this incredible, emotional reaction and connection to it. However, the speaker is saying that the faith humans have created for themselves long ago is no longer enough for the those "enslaved in the assembly lines". They need more to get them through their cold, blue routine. She uses an understatement to actually amplify how we feel toward faith. Instead of just casually stating that "this is all there is", humans are desperately hungry for a new religion that can help them survive in this new age.
This song puts into words the emotions we have in our day to day lives. We often feel that since we've grown up, life has beat us down and threw us into a cold, blue world. We are just going through the motions rather than living the happy lives we did when we were young and innocent.
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